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Palmetto (1998)

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Release Date: February 20, 1998
Genre: Crime, Suspense
Running Time: 114 minutes
MPAA Rating: Rated R for sexuality, language and some violence.
Director: Volker Schlöndorff
Writer: E. Max Frye, James Hadley Chase
Cast: Mikki McKeever, Richard Booker, Salvador Levy, Hal Jones, Peter Paul DeLeo, Ralph Wilcox, Joe Hickey, Marc Macaulay, Tom Wright, Chloë Sevigny, Michael Rapaport, Rolf Hoppe, Gina Gershon, Elisabeth Shue, Woody Harrelson

Newspaper reporter Harry Barber has just come home to Palmetto - a sleepy seaside Florida village that has long attracted trouble. Harry is fresh out of prison-his reward for trying to do the right thing in a chronically corrupt town. He tried to make a difference, tried to expose the layers of extortion at the town's center, but he was treated to an 8X10 cell.

Now Harry is back-and about to receive a Palmetto-style welcome. Read more

Movie Review

Grade: C+ Palmetto is not the most original film out there, nor is it the greatest to watch, but it isn't that big of a let down, either. Going into the movie, I didn't know what the hell it was about. All I knew was that Woody Harrelson, Elisabeth Shue, and Gina Gershon were in it. Well, I was write on that account, but there was more to Palmetto than just a strange sex thriller, which the previews implied (it was a while ago, so maybe I'm mistaken). Read the full movie review

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